Restoring detailed balance in non-Hermitian Markov processes

Physical review. E 2026 Open access

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Authors: Tim Van Wesemael, Gilberto Medeiros Nakamura, Jan Marcel Baetens, Odemir Martinez Bruno, Alexandre Souto Martinêz, Christophe Deroulers
DOI: 10.1103/qc1n-w5tg
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Abstract

Stochastic out-of-equilibrium processes often involve asymmetric contributions that break detailed balance and lead to nonmonotonic entropy production, limiting thermodynamic interpretations and inference techniques. Here we use Dyson maps to restore monotonic entropy growth in those processes, allowing the use of standard tools from statistical physics, providing a general and computationally tractable method applicable to a broad class of Markovian systems.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Statistical Mechanics and Entropy Quantum many-body systems

Publication details

Journal / source
Physical review. E
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Volume
114
Issue
1
Pages
014131–014131
Publication date
12 June 2026
Language
EN